Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1911 — ESCAPES ACROSS CAR ROOFS [ARTICLE]

ESCAPES ACROSS CAR ROOFS

Unidentified Boy T.'kes Risk to Avoid Reform School Sentence. South Bend, Ind., June 30. —A boy, Tvnose identity is shrouded in mystery and who was sentenced to the Plainfield Reform School for Boys under the name of Mark Dubois, made his escape from A Vandalia train while being taken from South Bend to that institution. By climbing through the window of a toilet, and crawling over the roof of the coaches to the tender, he jumnfed. When the lad made his perilous climb the train was running forty miles an hour. When arrested the boy, who is but sixteen years old, refused to identify himself and absolutely nothing is known regarding his family. He is still at large.